REU Site: Research in Prokaryotic Biology

REU 网站：原核生物学研究

• 批准号: 1460671
• 负责人: Vincent Starai
• 金额: $ 31.41万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-15 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1460671&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Prokaryotic; Biology

This REU Site award to the University of Georgia, located in Athens, Georgia, will support the training of 10 students for 9 weeks during the summers of 2015-2017. This program will introduce undergraduates to areas of microbial research and increase their awareness of careers in microbiology. Students from groups that are underrepresented in the scientific community, including deaf and hard-of-hearing students and ethnic minorities, are encouraged to participate in the program. REU participants conduct independent projects under the supervision of faculty mentors residing in several Departments including, but not limited to: Microbiology, Marine Sciences, and Infectious Diseases. All provide a variety of research topics that address the functions of prokaryotic organisms. Current techniques will be used in interdisciplinary approaches that combine knowledge from the fields of Genetics, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Ecology. Research projects will address broad questions including the role of prokaryotes in environmental and geochemical processes. Participants will attend workshops to become familiar with graduate school application and careers in microbiology. Student applications are submitted electronically through the program website. Competitive students will be selected by a committee of faculty. Participants will assess the quality of the REU program by use of a common assessment tool (SALG URSSA).It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Furthermore, students will have informal meetings with faculty, attend scientific seminars, participate in discussions of ethical issues in science, and join the regular research meetings of their lab groups. Students will present their research results at the end of the summer in a poster session. Students are required to be tracked after the program and must respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information is available by visiting http://mib.uga.edu/programs, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Vincent J. Starai at [e-mail]) or the co-PI (Dr. Diana Downs at [e-mail]).

REU 授予位于佐治亚州雅典的佐治亚大学的场地奖将支持 10 名学生在 2015 年至 2017 年夏季进行为期 9 周的培训。 该计划将向本科生介绍微生物研究领域，并提高他们对微生物学职业的认识。我们鼓励来自科学界代表性不足的群体的学生，包括聋哑学生和听力障碍学生以及少数民族学生参与该计划。 REU 参与者在来自多个系的教师导师的监督下开展独立项目，这些系包括但不限于：微生物学、海洋科学和传染病。所有这些都提供了涉及原核生物功能的各种研究主题。 当前的技术将用于跨学科方法，结合遗传学、生物化学、生物信息学、生理学、分子生物学、细胞生物学和生态学领域的知识。 研究项目将解决广泛的问题，包括原核生物在环境和地球化学过程中的作用。参与者将参加研讨会，以熟悉微生物学的研究生院申请和职业。 学生申请通过项目网站以电子方式提交。有竞争力的学生将由教师委员会选出。参与者将使用通用评估工具 (SALG URSSA) 评估 REU 项目的质量。预计共有 30 名学生（主要来自研究机会有限的学校）将接受该项目的培训。 学生将了解如何进行研究，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。 此外，学生将与教师举行非正式会议，参加科学研讨会，参与科学伦理问题的讨论，并参加实验室小组的定期研究会议。学生将在暑假结束时在海报会议上展示他们的研究成果。学生需要在课程结束后进行跟踪，并且必须回复通过 NSF 报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。如需了解更多信息，请访问 http://mib.uga.edu/programs，或联系 PI（Vincent J. Starai 博士，[e-mail]）或联合 PI（Diana Downs 博士，dmdowns@） uga.edu）。